Franklin, Jean(Ridgeview Institute and the International Society for the Study of Multiple Personality & Dissociation, June , 1988)

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Franklin, Jean
2005-09-07T20:44:15Z
2005-09-07T20:44:15Z
1988-06
0896-2863
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/1342
p. 027-033.
There are different forms of multiple personality disorder (MPD) that vary on a dissociative continuum from subtle forms in which the alters are not very distinct or elaborated and often influence each other without assuming full control, to patients with fully developed AIPD, whose alters are distinct, elaborated, assume full control, and emerge covertly. Most MPD patients present covertly, and some patients with covert presentations will later show overt classic symptoms, while those with subtle forms will often remain mild and subdued. Most MPD patients hide or disguise their condition, while their alters express their thoughts and feelings through subtle dissociative signs that occur when the alters influence each other, partly emerge, or subtly shift. These signs consist of frequent, sometimes sudden, fluctuations in affects, thoughts and behaviors, transferences, developmental levels, and psychiatric symptoms, and marked discrepancies in memories, viewpoint, and attitudes, which may indicate the possible presence of alters and of MPD or Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified : variants of MPD. The case of a subtle form of MPD is presented which illustrates some of the subtle signs of dissociation and other dissociative symptoms often seen in these patients.
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Ridgeview Institute and the International Society for the Study of Multiple Personality & Dissociation
Dissociation : Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 027-033 : Diagnosis Of Covert And Subtle Forms Of Multiple Personality Disorder Through Dissociative Signs
Diagnosis Of Covert And Subtle Forms Of Multiple Personality Disorder Through Dissociative Signs
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Franklin, Jean(Ridgeview Institute and the International Society for the Study of Multiple Personality and Dissociation, June , 1990)

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Franklin, Jean
2005-10-10T15:50:36Z
2005-10-10T15:50:36Z
1990-06
0896-2863
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/1527
p. 070-080
In multiple personality disorder (MPD), the overwhelming traumas induce dissociative states of consciousness in which the child uses developmental dreamlike thought in a dream mode of mental processing to form personalities to cope with or defend against the traumas. The personalities may then continue to be structured by schemas and substrates based on reality, fantasy, further dreamlike thought, and other shaping influences, such as identification. Evidence for this view is: (1) When MPD first develops, much of the child's normal thought is dreamlike. (2) The nature and elaboration of the personalities from childhood to adult MPD parallel the development of children's waking thought and their dreams. (3) MPD patients often use dreamlike thought (such as imagery, symbols, creative imagination, and personification) in the dream mode of processing in which personalities are intensely hallucinated, have delusions of experiential reality, often experience amnesia, show intense emotion, have varying orientations to time, place, and person, and use parallel and analogical processing.
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Ridgeview Institute and the International Society for the Study of Multiple Personality and Dissociation
Dissociation : Vol. 3, No. 2, p. 070-080 : Dreamlike thought and dream mode processes in the formation of personalities in MPD
Dreamlike thought and dream mode processes in the formation of personalities in MPD
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